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25 Thrilling Classics

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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read in March 2014

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Sam said: " .I finished the first novel "813" by Maurice Blance ... It was written in the time of Napoleon placed in France. Interesting story, I really did enjoi book #1. Finished 7-5-12.
Starting #2 "The After House" by Mary Roberts Rinehart .. on 7- .I finished the first novel "813" by Maurice Blance ... It was written in the time of Napoleon placed in France. Interesting story, I really did enjoi book #1. Finished 7-5-12.
Starting #2 "The After House" by Mary Roberts Rinehart .. on 7-6-12 - finished it on 7- 7-12. This is an old one too. Poor young man, just graduated from Med. School with a four month vacation before he starts his residency, gets a summer job working on a yacht, a murder or three...
Next book is called "The Angel of Terror" by Edgar Wallace. Started 7-7-12. Finished book three on7-9-12. Liked it, tho it was not great. Intertaining , funny kind of plot that twists and turns until you you want to root for the bad guys...
Starting book # 4 is called "The Attic Murder" by Sydney Fowler Wright... on 7-9-12... Finished 7-11-12.... I really enjoyed this book. So many twists and turns you can not guess who the real killer was. This is the Author who put this collection of "25 Thrillers" together. Would gladly read any of his books. He has a very active imagination.
Book #5 - " The Avenger" by E. Phillips
Oppenhiem .. started 7-16-2012 kind of a mystery - love story and wrong place vs wrong man who helps. finished 7-18-12
Started "Basil" on 7-19-12. Well to do man (2nd son) who's Father is PROUD of his lineage, so second son marries a merchant's daughter in secret for one year,..
.. by the end of the year, on the day he was going to claim her - his father disowns him, sister loves him, and his big brother comes back from carousing around to help his brother. A crazy man is in the background of the whole story with his own agenda, and book ends with no wife, crazy man, no father and a self defense murder... lots of unexpected twists. finished 7-23-12.
The Black Gang by Herman Cyril McNeile is next - starting on 8-24-2012 and I liked this one a lot. Kind of a flat story but it held my interest. An English Gentleman turns to removing the people who tried to teach comunisum to the children in school. He rounds up 60 of them and then.... finished 8-25-2012.
Starting on 8-26-2012 is The Blue Lights by Fredrick Arnold Kummer ... a good mystery but it was a mystery to me why the cops had the wife's help and the husband worked for the victim...all in secret ..it was ok and I finished it 9-5-2012.
Started "The Burial of the Rats" by Bram Stoker on 9-6-2012.

Started "City Crimes" 6-13-2013 ... this was a good read. However The Crime of the Centuary was the worst book ever. So many names, facts, figures, Irish politics, on and on. The worst. On page 2088, starting 4-9-14, by Henry L. Hunt. Starting Cross Cut now.. this one written byCourtney Riley Cooper.
Cross Cut was really a good story. About a fathers silver mine accident, and a dead partner. I enjoyed the other partner and the mans son. Sabatoge, lies and murder are on the menu, but all turns out well, and the son gets the girl... finished 4-13-14. I started ?.. Dead men tell no Tales 4-14-14.
Finished this one on 4-16-14. This book is about a plot to steel gold from a mine in Alstralia. They summguled it onto the boat, and then blew up the boat, so they could steel it. They killed all the crew and passengers, but one. When all excitement settles down, they befriend the survivor and trick him to see how much info he knows. Good story with a surprize ending. Next up is, Desperate Remedies, started 4-17-14. ...more "

progress: On page 1572. "3-21-14... finished The Coast of a Chance, by Esther and Lucia Chamberlain. Mystery theft of "The CHATWORTH Ring" no one has seen it. Takes place in San Francisco in early 1900's... Story about society of the time, the search for the ring and a nobody who turns out to be a somebody..." — Mar 25, 2014 01:36PM

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The Habit of Leading Yourself: A One Year Guide to Becoming Unstoppable

by Cayla Craft

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"Perfect. Making a goal and the tenacity to stick to it. Focus" — Oct 01, 2019 07:36AM

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Sam’s Quotes

“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
― Susanna Kearsley, Mariana

tags: change, life, past

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“Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.”
― Jeff Shaara, Gods and Generals

tags: conscience, duty

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“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."

His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

tags: love, outlander

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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: misattributed-edgar-allan-poe

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“Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love, marriage, romance

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